If your hearing is to be trusted, the howls seem to be coming from the upper path.
You go through the bottom path...
But you are quickly met with a DEAD END.
Something shimmers in the distance...
Nino: Plunder that sweet loot.
Oh boy, is this more treasure? God you hope it is something cool.
Nino: Look at the shimmering things, are those flowers?
What the...
It's just some yellow flowers.
You got excited all over nothing?? Wow, this adventure is off to a GREAT start!!! Oh boy!!!! You really want to kick something now!!!!! WOW!!!!!!!!
Wait, hold that thought.
The flowers are weirdly resonating with your presence...
tl;dr: Nino, in effort to avoid wolf, enters the lower path, but finds a dead end. But he also seems to find treasure. But then they're just flowers and he's sarcastic about it. BUT THEN they start glowing, which is irregular flower behavior.